This perfectly sensible desire/solution was brought about by less than an hr.'s worth of telebision & iNternet consumption. Like the trivial & not really any more or less political (Could as easily be a publicly or privately held corporate entity as a gummint superagency denying all rationality & common sense.) than anything else issue of nowhere to urinate, then urine everywhere.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's solution to this anecdotal public urination by anecdotal bus-riding students is not to increase the pee-ce† by making toilets available (Why in hell would anyone think that would solve a public pee problem? Sheesh.) to the masses, but whatever the fuck went on in these paragraphs:
Catch the stats? 30,000 walking 80%-water sacks a day, but none of them have to piss? (Fuck this blame the transients shit too. Assholes.)Who beat common sense into a coma w/ a sledgehammer? Are public toilets as evil as Obamacare, socialism-wise? Or is this deeper, something hidden in America's Puritan soul? (President Lewis of the Winnetka Neighborhood Council, for example, is afraid people will think piss is something made up. That's some denial.) And oh just by the friggin' way there, shouldn't the free market have solved this problem? Are there no entrepreneurs among the Winnetka Neighborhood Council?Faced with such complaints, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to study ways to stop passengers at the Pierce College Station from "creating their own bathrooms." The nearby alleyways and sidewalks aren't Metro property, but the agency has a responsibility to keep stations "clean and safe," directors said.http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-public-urination-orange-line-20131205,0,6816839.story#ixzz2mjJLwqnq
Metro staff will also study whether more subway, light-rail and bus rapid transit lines need bathrooms. Under a long-standing policy, Metro maintains public restrooms only at major transit hubs: Union Station, the Harbor Gateway Transit Center and the El Monte Bus Station.
Two stations along the Orange Line, in North Hollywood and Van Nuys, have self-cleaning bathrooms installed and paid for by the city of Los Angeles, according to Metro spokesman Rick Jager.
The Orange Line, a 14-mile busway that connects North Hollywood to the Warner Center, averages about 30,000 riders a day. Metro may have to bend its policy and install a portable toilet for passengers, Metro directors Zev Yaroslavsky, Michael Antonovich and Paul Krekorian wrote in their motion, if the problem can't be solved another way.
"No one could go out of their way to make up this kind of story," said Eric Lewis, the president of the Winnetka Neighborhood Council. "There’s an actual problem, and it's a big one."
Most offenders appear not to be transients, but students at Pierce College, Lewis said. A homeowner recently saw two men urinating in the alley, each with books under his arms.
If the M.T.A. board continues this stream of logic its next study will suggest that trash & waste receptacles at stations & stops are a knee-jerk reaction to litter problems & other solutions should be looked at as well.
In the meantime maybe we'll just beat our own head w/ the sledgehammer for a while. It's bound to feel better when we stop.
*Not a molecular bond remaining: Literal reduction to atoms. NOW!!!
†Worst ever, or yet?
1 comment:
Toilets are like socialism.
If you provide them, people will just pee more.
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